Kevin Vance - Heh, silly me. Remember that posting I made today when I was…

Heh, silly me. Remember that posting I made today when I was analyzing the situation of DOSEMU not working? I got distracted by Freakazoid right as I was uncovering the answer. Resuming my train of thought, bind() led to networking, which led to disabling the net code (remaning from my warcraft 2 days), which led to a perfectly working dosemu. Thanks, livejournal, for storing my train of thought until I could use it again, and thanks teferi for your moral support through this difficult DOSless time!

Re: 'twas nothing

Ooh, that sounds painful. But probably more than it really is, since dosemu's debugger is so low level.

Since I can glean no information from that, I'd try an strace to see what system calls it makes before dying horribly. Otherwise, the standard list: make sure root has access to the X server (duh), try turning off mitshm in the config file, make sure you have the vga font installed. That's all I can think of off the top of my head. An strace should be more informational.

If all else fails, you could always try trusting no binaries and compiling from source like me.